Sam Altman is again—once more. The entrepreneur who was suddenly fired as OpenAI CEO and from the ChatGPT developer’s board final November, earlier than regaining his CEO position days later, is now getting his director seat again, too.

Altman and three veteran enterprise executives, all ladies, have been named to OpenAI’s board on Friday, OpenAI introduced in a blog post. Sue Desmond-Hellmann, former CEO of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; Nicole Seligman, a former Sony basic counsel; and Fidji Simo, the CEO and chair of grocery supply firm Instacart and a former Facebook government, are the others becoming a member of the board.

OpenAI’s announcement coincided with the discharge of outcomes from an inside investigation commissioned by three current board members and carried out by the regulation agency WilmerHale. It discovered “a breakdown in trust” precipitated Altman’s elimination by the prior board and that his earlier conduct “did not mandate removal,” in line with a abstract printed by OpenAI.

On a press name Friday, Altman tried to attract a line underneath OpenAI’s drama, saying, “I’m pleased this whole thing is over.” He added that “it’s been disheartening to see some people with an agenda trying to use leaks in the press to hurt the company, hurt the mission.”

While the investigation cleared Altman to reclaim his board seat, he stated he “did learn a lot from this experience,” expressing regret for one incident particularly involving a board member he didn’t title.

That seemed to be a reference to former OpenAI director Helen Toner, a researcher on the Center for Security and Emerging Technology, a Georgetown suppose tank. After she printed a analysis evaluation that criticized the velocity of OpenAI’s product launch selections, Altman reportedly tried to take away her from the board. “I think I could have handled that situation with more grace and care—I apologize for that,” he stated.

Clean-Up

OpenAI has been trying to develop the board for months after saying an interim board following the November chaos. It was fashioned after a deal between some board members who had pushed Altman out, alleging he had endangered its mission to develop superhuman AI for the good thing about all. Three of these administrators agreed to step down after more than 95 percent of OpenAI staff threatened to quit if he wasn’t brought back.

The firm’s governance has drawn public scrutiny due to its growth of ChatGPT, Dall-E, and different providers which have kicked off a growth in generative AI applied sciences over the previous couple of years.

Altman had been suddenly fired by four members of the board of OpenAI’s nonprofit entity, which in an unusual structure in tech oversees a for-profit arm engaged on AI growth. They expressed considerations about his communications with the board not being persistently candid as a part of their justification for the transfer.

After a chaotic few days throughout which Microsoft said it would hire Altman and Brockman, OpenAI staff threatened to quit en masse, Altman was reinstated as CEO.